Compulsions Quotes

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?

The taxidermist takes only your skin.

This is a competition,

not a recital.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go,

what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother

and to marry Rachel?

The solution to my problem was only days away

in the hands of a tough, shrewd,

courageous man called Branch Rickey,

the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The fox has many tricks.

The hedgehog has but one.

But that is the best of all.

A word after a word after a word is power.

If I had been white with the things I did,

they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance.

You cannot have everything.

Where would you put it?

The biggest thing in life is to have the heart of a champion.

The more I work,

the more I realize how little I know.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be

suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

The human race has one really effective weapon,

and that is laughter.

History is written by those who think and reflect on it.

Those who cannot work

with their hearts

achieve but a hollow,

half

hearted success that

breeds bitterness all around.

Man is priest,

and scholar,

and statesman,

and producer,

and soldier.

So we beat on,

boats against the current,

borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.